pfrankinstein wrote:THWOTH wrote:pfrankinstein wrote:THWOTH wrote:It started with a bang, but all were left with is a terrible hang.
Is it fair to describe it as a "shapeshifter process.?
Paul.
Depends what you mean by 'shape', 'shifter' and 'process' I guess - and probably 'fair' and 'describe' as well.
The way the single process presents itself when circumstancess allow.
A quandary,
"The stuff of stars by the same process".
My theory involves light and colours.
Psudoscience. Primal selection.
Paul.
OK. I'll bite.
All natural processes are embedded in other natural processes.
The Universe is that in which all natural processes are contained.
You claim that this container is necessarily (imperative) a process explainable in scientific terms by way of selective evolution, and yet you consistently fail to articulate how, and, therefore, why. Why do you have trouble articulating that I wonder? Well...
It's a matter of perspective, or philosophy (or sophistry)--a matter of belief, of accepting an idea as being correct or true and reflecting Reality (capital R)--rather than science, which aims towards a rigorous description of some aspect of the natural world.
As an idea it strikes me as being, in essence, a secular form of deism, and as such your idea suffers from deism's twin perils: i) even if true it adds zero information to our understanding of the material world and has zero impact on our personal interaction with, perception and/or understanding of the material world, and ii) it invokes a paradox of irreducibility: i.e. if the Universe a process then in what is it contained, and what contains that container(?) etc.
In response to the first peril you'd probably be inclined to say something like: “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” And while that could be said to be true (for some people, in some situations) in a philosophical or ideological sense, one would be extremely hard pushed to demonstrate that it was true in a material sense.
For example, one might change the way one looked at snowflakes, and say that they don't form under certain material conditions but instead evolve by some selective process, but then one would have to address questions like "What are these selective forces working on snowflakes, and how do snowflakes replicate, and therefore evolve?" (and before one knows it you're most likely rapidly hoping on-and-off the equivocation train). So that aphoristic approach is redundant, because it essentially says nothing but, "When you change the way you look at things, the way you look at things has changed." That is to say, no additional or new information is brought to the table; there is no material impact on our perception or understanding of things simply by categorising natural processes with material explanations 'evolution'.
In response to the second peril you'd probably be inclined to invoke some higher order of universe - a literal and figurative higher power, like a Universe-containing Superverse, or perhaps a Multiverse of Superverses, or a Megaverse of Multiverses. And again, while those notions could appear to wash away the Universe-level irreducibility problem, all they really do is shift the paradox one level up in a hierarchy of *Verses, and thus onto some claimed-for material explanation for which there is, at present, no material support.
But even if the SuperMegaMetaverse was a real and rigorously, scientifically demonstrable thing, it's mere existence would not mean this ultimate-container-of-containers was necessarily (imperative) a process explainable in scientific terms by way of selective evolutionary processes.
So while we could say that a universe, like the snowflakes, is something that forms under certain material conditions, not knowing exactly what those universe-arising conditions are (or are likely to be) does not leave explanations for every material thing within that universe up for grabs, nor does it leave the door open for every imaginable conception about what the world is and how it works to be granted equal weight, regard or explanatory force.
Ultimately, in the face of the debunking of your quaint ideas, you will opine that your objectors here are simply reluctant to "change the way they look at things", and you'll no doubt go to some lengths to cast that as a moral and/or cognitive failing, before admonishing them for not going to enough lenghts to demonstrate to your satisfaction that your notions about the nature of the material world are not true - hence you find this discussion siloed to the pseudoscience section of the forum.